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Antoine Deza

Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Graduate)
Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization
Master - Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris
PhD - Tokyo Institute of Technology
P.Eng.

Department of Computing and Software
Faculty of Engineering
McMaster University

1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada

Tel.: +1-905-525-9140 ext. 23750
Fax (dept.): +1-905-524-0340
E-mail: deza@mcmaster.ca

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Advanced Optimization Laboratory Seminars Series

Fields Institute Industrial Optimization Seminar Series


Thematic Program on Discrete Geometry and Applications, Fields Institute, Toronto, Fall 2011

Efficiency of the Simplex Method; Quo vadis Hirsch conjecture?, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Los Angeles, February 2011

CMS Session on Recent Trends in Discrete Geometry, Windsor, Ontario, December 5-7, 2009

BIRS Workshop on Transversal and Helly-type Theorems in Geometry, Combinatorics and Topology, Banff, September 20-25, 2009

Canada-Japan Workshop on Discrete and Computational Geometry, University of Tokyo, 13-15 July, 2009

CORS/INFORMS International Meeting, Toronto, June 14-17, 2009

Second Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference, Montreal, May 25-29, 2009

Optimization Days, Montreal, May 4-6, 2009

Discrete Geometry Meeting, Fields Institute, Toronto, November 29, 2008

Combinatorial Optimization Day, McMaster, August 22, 2008

MOPTA 08 - Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications, University of Guelph, August 18-20, 2008

AMS Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, November 3-4, 2007

Second Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous Optimization ICCOPT II
& MOPTA 07 - Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications,
McMaster, Hamilton, August 12-17, 2007

Workshop on Advances in Optimization, Tokyo, April 19-21, 2007


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Post-doctoral fellows and Visiting Scholars
  • Yuriy Zinchenko (2005 - 2008)
    current position: Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
  • Tamon Stephen (2004 - 2005)
    current position: Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
  • Simon Schurr (since 2008)

Graduate students

  • Jessie Liu, Ph.D. (starting September 2009)
  • Mei Jiang, Ph.D. (starting September 2009)
  • Guohong Rong, M.Sc. (starting September 2009)
  • Cathy Zhang, M.Eng. (starting September 2009)
  • William Hua, Ph.D. (since 2008) -- NSERC CGS-D recipient
  • Voicu Chis, Ph.D. (since 2008)
  • Andrew Baker, Ph.D. (since 2008) -- OGSST recipient (2008 and 2009)
  • Oleksandr Romanko, Ph.D. (since 2008) -- MITACS Accelerate internship recipient (2008 and 2009)
  • Alvin Hsieh, M.Sc. (since 2008)
  • Mei Jiang, M.Sc. (2008 - 2009)
    current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
  • Feng Xie, Ph.D. (since 2007) -- NSERC PGS-D recipient, IBM TJ Watson internship recipient (2008)
  • Jessie Liu, M.Sc. (2007 - 2009)
    current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
  • William Hua, M.Sc. (2007 - 2008) -- NSERC CGS-M recipient
    current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
  • Jonathan Li, M.Sc. (2006 - 2008)
    current position: Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto
  • Doron Pearl, M.Eng. (2006 - 2008)
    current position: Intelliware, Toronto
  • Feng Xie, M.Sc. (2006 - 2007) -- OGS recipient
    current position: Ph.D. student at McMaster University
  • Sandra Gregov, M.Sc. (2005 - 2007)
    current position: Universal Energy, Toronto
  • Chris Dickson, M.Sc. (2005 - 2007)
    current position: Bedlam Games, Toronto
  • Sui Huang, M.Sc. (2005 - 2007)
    current position: MRF Geosystems Corporation, Calgary
  • Antoine Maghamez, Ph.D. (2005 - 2007)
    current position: Business Objects -- SAP, Toronto
  • Gabriel Indik, M.Sc. (2004 - 2006)
    current position: IBM Toronto
  • Tomohiko Mizutani, M.Sc. (2002 - 2003)
    current position: Assistant Professor, University of Kanagawa, Japan

Undergraduate research assistants


Teaching 2009-2010


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